Archive for the ‘Link Building’ Category

After lots and lots of work and way too many delays (sorry!) the 2nd Edition of The Link Building Book is now live. For existing customers – you get the update for free If you’ve already purchased (thank you!), you should have received an email from me with a link to the new edition. If

tl;dr – if you’d like to be the first to hear about the release of the second edition of my link building book, go signup here. If you’ve already purchased the book, you’ll be getting the update for free and be receiving an email very soon. I can’t quite believe that it’s been over two

Update: Jon has given me a discount code on the guide which you can retrieve by going through this URL. Some of you may have already seen the Advanced eCommerce Link Building Guide by Jon Cooper. I was fortunate enough to get a peek at the guide a couple of weeks ago and I provided

There are all sorts of awesome link metrics available to us these days, many people reading this may not remember the days when we didn’t have Domain Authority, Trust or Citation Flow or when Yahoo Site Explorer was the go-to place for backlink checks. Now we have lots available to us and they’re great for

Regular readers will know that I’m a big fan of BuzzStream. I’ve written about using it for guest posting, infographic link building and broken link building before. They have just released a new feature which I’m really pleased to see. Before going into the detail of the new feature, I wanted to explain why I

A really quick and easy link building tip for Gmail users today. I’ve mentioned before that I always get more outreach responses when I follow up with prospects. Chances are that you won’t catch everyone at just the right time first time around, so following up is always a good idea. However this requires you

Update: Given the various comments this piece has generated, I just wanted to reiterate that the point of this article isn’t to criticise travel bloggers or SEOs. If you own a blog, it is your choice to charge for links if you want. If you’re an SEO, you can buy links if you want. The

One of the tips I gave away at MozCon was to use a Google custom search engine (CSE) to dig through your competitors links and find easy wins. I wouldn’t advise this as your only link building tactic because ultimately you want to get the links that your competitors can’t get as these will make

This is the third in a series of posts focusing on how I use BuzzStream to build links. See the previous two posts on infographic link building and guest post link building to catchup on these techniques. In general, there aren’t many “quick win” link building techniques out there which delivery good quality links. Most high

This is the second in a series of posts I’m writing focused around using BuzzStream for link building. My previous post was about link building with infographics. Despite recent changes in the way Google handle over-optimisation particularly relating to links, quality guest blogging for me, is still a viable link building technique. Like any link